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Technology is democratizing the power to change the world. BOLD spells out how you can spy the opportunities and put your vision into action, blazing a path from mind to market.

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— Praise for BOLD —

"BOLD is a visionary roadmap for people who believe they can change the world — and offers invaluable advice about bringing together the partners and technologies to help them do it."
— President Bill Clinton

"Abundance showed us where our world can be in 20 years. BOLD is a roadmap for entrepreneurs to help us get there."
— Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google

"BOLD is an essential navigation tool for any proactive CEO who wants to remain relevant. BOLD, spells out the implications and opportunities driven by exponential changes transforming our world."
— Jim Moffatt, CEO of U.S. Deloitte Consulting, LLP

"In BOLD, Diamandis and Kotler have written another dazzler. A riveting look inside the world of exponential entrepreneurship—action-packed and action-oriented. I’ve purchased a copy for my entire team at Cisco."
— Padmasree Warrior, CTO & Chief Strategy Office, CISCO

"If you read one business book in the twenty-first century, this should be BOLD. This book clearly explains how to change the world and overcome the age old afflictions of human civilization."
— Ray Kurzweil, inventor, author, a director of engineering at Google

"BOLD is an amazing sequel, a book that every entrepreneur should read. It is inspiring, filled with incredible insights and offers a practical how-to game plan for going big and impacting the world."
— Michael Dell, CEO, Dell Computers

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The video above was produced using the crowdsourcing service Tongal. Learn how you too can leverage the power of the crowd in chapter 7 of BOLD.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The world has fundamentally changed. Agility trumps size. Today the world’s biggest problems are the world’s greatest opportunities.

Chapter 1 — Goodbye Linear Thinking... Hello, Exponential

40 percent of today’s Fortune 500 companies will be gone in ten years. Products and services are being dematerialized and demonetized. The entrepreneurs who win are those who can think exponentially.

Chapter 2 — Exponential Technology

Reading an exponential roadmap is key to your success. Understanding when technology is going from deceptive to disruptive. 3D printing is just one example that will disrupt a trillion dollar industry.

Chapter 3 — Five to Change the World

Robotics, infinite computing, synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, and networks and sensors are the technologies that will produce the next group of billionaires. But you don’t need to be a technologist to play this game.

Chapter 4 — Climbing Mount Bold

What does Lockheed Skunkworks and GoogleX have in common? What are Google’s 8 innovation principles that you should be applying to your next startup?

Chapter 5 — The Secrets of Going Big

Super-Credibility and Stone Soup are two terms you probably don’t know, but exponential entrepreneurs depend on both to punch above their weight class.

Chapter 6 — Billionaire Wisdom

Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Larry Page and Jeff Bezos share eight key strategies that heltp them think at scale. These are the same psychological tools and mental strategies that you should use as an exponential entrepreneur.

Chapter 7 — Crowdsourcing

With five billion people online by 2020, the most successful entrepreneurs and companies will use the power of the hyper-connected crowd to source their latest ideas, products and solutions. Here’s the way to do it.

Chapter 8 — Crowdfunding

By 2020, $100 billion of capital is coming on-line from Crowdfunding. Here’s a proven and detailed how-to guide to turn the crowd into your personal cash machine for funding your next product or service.

Chapter 9 — Building Communities

Communities built Wikipedia and Linux (both valued at tens of billions). Communities can design your next products, spread your video to millions, or finance your next company. Here’s the how-to guide for building your powerful community.

Chapter 10 — Incentive Competitions

Incentive prizes let you tap into the world’s smartest people to help you solve your biggest problem. The best part is that you don't pay until after it's solved. Even better, it works… Here’s how.

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About the Authors

Peter H. Diamandis

Dr. Peter H. Diamandis is an international pioneer in the fields of innovation, incentive competitions and commercial space. Diamandis is Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, Co-Founder and Vice-Chairman of Human Longevity Inc., Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Singularity University, and Co-Founder/Co-Chairman of Planetary Resources. Diamandis is the New York Times Bestselling author of Abundance – The Future Is Better Than You Think. Diamandis’ mission is to open the space frontier for humanity. His personal motto is: "The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself."

Steven Kotler

Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author, award-winning journalist and cofounder and director of research for the Flow Genome Project. His books include The Rise of Superman, Abundance, A Small Furry Prayer, West of Jesus and The Angle Quickest For Flight. His articles have appeared in over 75 publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Wired, Forbes and the Atlantic Monthly. He also writes "Far Frontiers," a blog about innovation and technology for Forbes, and "The Playing Field," a blog about the science of sport and culture for Psychology Today.

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About BOLD: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

From the coauthors of the #2 New York Times bestseller Abundance comes their much anticipated follow-up: BOLD—a radical, how-to guide to using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking and crowd-powered tools to create extraordinary wealth in your own life while simultaneously creating a world of abundance.

In Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think, Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler explored how four potent emerging forces—exponential technologies, the DIY innovator, technophilanthropists and the rising billion—give us the power to solve many of the world's grandest challenges and the potential to meet the needs of every man, woman and child over the next two to three decades. In BOLD, they offer the next step: a highly practical playbook that arms today's entrepreneurs, activists and leaders with the tools they'll need to positively impact the lives of billions while making their biggest dreams come true.

BOLD unfolds in three parts. Part One focuses on the exponential technologies which are disrupting today's Fortune 500 companies and enabling upstart entrepreneurs to go from 'I've got an idea' to 'I run a billion-dollar company' far faster than ever before. With advice garnered from their own experience and hundreds of interviews with Silicon Valley elite, the authors provide exceptional insight into how anyone can harness the power of 3D printing, artificial intelligence, robotics, networks and sensors, and synthetic biology—the very technologies enabling today's entrepreneurs to tackle the kinds of enormous challenges that were once only possible for governments and major corporations. Part Two of the book focuses on Psychology of Bold—the mental toolkit that allows the world's top innovators to raise their game by thinking at scale, including detailed interviews with and lessons from Larry Page, Elon Musk, Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos. Also in Part Two, Kotler reveals the keys to ultimate human performance garnered from fifteen years of research with the Flow Genome Project and Diamandis reveals his entrepreneurial secrets garnered from building fifteen companies, including such audacious ventures as Singularity University, the XPRIZE, Planetary Resources (for the mining of near-Earth Asteroids) and Human Longevity, Inc. (focused on extending the healthy human life-span). Finally, BOLD closes with a look at the incredible power and essential best practices that allow anyone to leverage today's hyper-connected crowd like never before. Here, Diamandis and Kotler teach how to design and use incentive competitions to find breakthrough solutions, how to launch million-dollar crowdfunding campaigns to tap into ten's of billions of dollars of available capital, and finally how to build communities – armies of exponentially enabled individuals willing and able to help today's entrepreneurs make their boldest dreams come true.

BOLD: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World is both a manifesto and a manual. It is today's exponential entrepreneur's go-to resource on the use of emerging technologies, thinking at scale, and the awesome power of crowd-powered tools like crowdfunding, crowdsourcing and incentive competitions. All around us, technology is democratizing the power to change the world, and BOLD spells out how anyone can spy the opportunities and put their vision into action, blazing a path from mind to market.

About the Book Cover

The BOLD Book Cover show's the Earth being hit by an asteroid. What is the relevance of this image?

66 million years ago, dinosaurs were the uber-dominant species on Earth. But when an asteroid collided with our planet—unleashing everything from mega-tsunamis to global firestorms—these creatures were unable to adapt to the upheaval and instead went extinct.

For our species, this was very good news. While the dinosaurs were large, lumbering and inflexible, those early small, furry mammals—our ancestors—were far more nimble and resilient. They took opportunistic advantage of the radical changes sweeping the globe, adapted to their new environment, and never looked back.

In today's business world, this tale is especially relevant. Right now there is another asteroid impacting our world—it's called: “exponential technology.” And its awesome power is threatening a different breed of dinosaur—large and innovation-resistant companies. Yet there's a new breed of small, furry mammal starting to emerge. These mammals are today's exponential entrepreneurs—those using radically accelerating technologies to transform products, services and industries to pave the way for a world of abundance.

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